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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 15
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Samson burns corn of Philistines—They burn his wife and father-in-law—Samson slays a thousand Philistines at Lehi with jawbone of an ass.
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But</span> it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber.  But her father would not suffer him to go in.
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And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: <i>is</i> not her younger sister fairer than she?  take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
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&#182; And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
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And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
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And when he had set the brands on fire, he let <i>them</i> go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 22: 6.">burnt</a> up both the shocks, and also the standing <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/15/5b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR grain.">corn</a>, with the vineyards <i>and</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="judg/15/5c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE olive trees.">olives</a>.
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&#182; Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this?  And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion.  And the Philistines came up, and <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 14: 15.">burnt</a> her and <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/15/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="Septuagint, Syriac, and many Heb. MSS.: her father’s house.">her</a> father with fire.
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&#182; And Samson said unto them, <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR If you act in this way.">Though</a> ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
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And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
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&#182; Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
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And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us?  And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
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Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 14: 4.">rulers</a> over us?  what <i>is</i> this <i>that</i> thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
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And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.  And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
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And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee.  And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
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&#182; <i>And</i> when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came mightily upon him, and the cords that <i>were</i> upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 2: 28 (26-36); Alma 14: 26.">loosed</a> from off his hands.
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And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
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And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
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And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-lehi.
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&#182; And he was <sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/18a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR very thirsty.">sore</a> athirst, and called on the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
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<sup>a</sup><a href="judg/15/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR but God opened up the basin that was at Lehi.">But</a> God clave an hollow place that <i>was</i> in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof <sup>b</sup><a href="judg/15/19b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE The spring of him who calls.">En</a>-hakkore, which <i>is</i> in Lehi unto this day.
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And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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